Margo Wilson
Margo Wilson FRSC (1942–2009) was a Canadian evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psychology and her contributions to the study of violence.[1]
Biography
Wilson was born on October 1, 1942, in
From 1972 through 1975, she was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto, where she met her future husband, fellow psychologist Martin Daly.[2][4] Together, they moved to Hamilton in 1978 after Daly was hired by McMaster University.[2] In the 1980s, Wilson was appointed professor of Psychology at McMaster, where she remained for the rest of her career.[2]
Wilson was elected president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in 1997.[3] With Daly, she was, for 10 years, the editor-in-chief of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior,.[4] In 1998, she was named a fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
Wilson died in Hamilton on September 24, 2009, of cancer.[2] In 2009, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society established the Margo Wilson Award (for best paper published in the previous year) to honour her contributions to the field.[5][6]
Research
In 1978, Wilson proposed the idea to Daly that they could analyze patterns of homicide to better understand humans' social behaviours from an evolutionary perspective.[4] For the next 30 years, Wilson and Daly collaborated on this research, authoring several books and over 100 academic papers and book chapters in this area.[7][4]
Their first book on this topic, Homicide (1988),[8] has been described as a "founding"[9] and "classic"[4] text for the field of evolutionary psychology. Their second book on homicide, The truth about Cinderella (1999),[10] summarized their findings on the Cinderella effect, which suggests that stepparents are more likely to mistreat children than biological parents.[11]
Selected bibliography
(All books co-authored with Martin Daly)
- Sex, Evolution, and Behaviour, Brooks Cole, 1978 (2nd edition 1983), ISBN 978-0871507679
- Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior, Aldine Transaction, 1988, ISBN 978-0202011783
- The truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian view of parental love, Yale, 1999, ISBN 9780300080292
See also
References
- ISBN 978-3-319-16999-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h Belluz, Julia (2009-10-15). "Margo Wilson's research shed light on evolutionary psychology". The Globe & Mail. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ S2CID 146938189.
- ^ ISSN 1789-2082.
- ^ "Awards". Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
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- ^ "Margo Wilson's research shed light on evolutionary psychology" by Julia Belluz, The Globe and Mail, October 1, 2009
- OCLC 16714351.
- S2CID 205035543.
- OCLC 41419567.
- ^ Nobes, Gavin; Panagiotaki, Georgia (2018-09-24). "The Cinderella effect: are stepfathers dangerous?". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-12-02.